As I’m watching this Chilean mine rescue and hearing about how the 33 miners have been trapped underground since Aug. 5, it got me wondering how to quantify exactly how long it’s been.
Putting The Chilean Mine Rescue Into A NASCAR Perspective
↵Since we’re all caught up in the day-to-day happenings in NASCAR, let’s look at it from a racing perspective:
↵• Aug. 5 was a few days before the Watkins Glen race. There have been nine Sprint Cup races since the miners were trapped underground, plus an off-week. That’s one-quarter of the entire Cup season!
↵• Tony Stewart has won two races since the miners became stuck. The first of those wins wasn’t even until a month after the miners had already been underground; the second was over a month later. Those 33 men had been in the mine the entire time.
↵• Remember the news that Kasey Kahne would join Red Bull Racing next year? The miners have been stuck since five days before that.
↵• It seems like awhile since Kyle Busch pulled off the Bristol sweep. But when he did, the miners had already been underground for two weeks.
↵• The miners have been stuck for well over 1,600 hours, which is almost as long as one Pocono race (I kid, I kid).
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